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Weekend Box Office Prophet Game Results: November 6-8

2 hours ago | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

This past round of the Weekend Box Office Prophet game yielded quite a few highlights worth drawing attention to as Disney's A Christmas Carol came in below expectations while The Men Who Stare at Goats rode great marketing to a double digit opening.

The first round of applause goes to aidanbrack for winning his second round out of 11 played. The win was enough to catapult him to 5th place atop the cumulative leaderboard.

Second place went to WalkingDisaster who continues to perform in the top percentile week after week. If this player were the Prophet then prizes would never be awarded!

Speaking of the Prophet, he placed his best finish yet in 5th place this past round. The Prophet nailed This Is It on the nose but flip-flopped the success of The Fourth Kind and The Box. Missing A Christmas Carol by $5 million did not help matters either.

Final props »

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AfterElton Briefs: "A Single Man" Gets De-Gayed, Hot Shirtless Boy Bands, "South Park", and more.

5 hours ago | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

People are talking about precisely who Colin Firth wants to be in bed with.

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear. Yes, we're serious.

Above, you can see the one sheet for Tom Ford's A Single Man, which more than one blog is crying about the marketing being de-gayed. And not just gay blogs, because indieWIRE says the new trailer has also been de-gayed. It's not fresh news right now, but I'd like to thank reader Darrien for pointing out that Jan Moir was named Bigot Of the Year  by Stonewall in the U.K. after a last minute nomination for her hateful articles about Boyzone singer Stephen Gately. Adam Lambert was profiled by the L.A. Times yesterday and says he's more interested in being Beyonce than Daughtry. There are a stack of really good, funny »

- lostinmiami

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Is 'Precious' Bound For Academy Awards Honors?

8 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

From MTV.Com: This past weekend, moviegoers across the nation had their choice of over 3,600 theaters at which they could catch "A Christmas Carol," the 3-D motion-capture odyssey starring Jim Carrey. At the same time, the indie drama "Precious" screened in just 18 places during its opening weekend. "Christmas Carol" raked in the big bucks — $31 million in total — but "Precious" was arguably the bigger box-office story.

The film raked in $1.8 million dollars, for a per-screen-average of $100,000 — the highest in three years and the 11th best of all time — greatly increasing the chances that it will become the darling of the upcoming awards season.

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- Eric Ditzian

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'Carol' wins the box office

8 hours ago | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

The Robert Zemeckis-directed "Disney's A Christmas Carol" grossed $31 million in its opening run to win the domestic box office weekend.According to Variety, the Michael Jackson film "This Is It" placed No. 2 with $14 million for a cumulative of $57.9 million.Overture Films' George Clooney flick "The Men Who Stare at Goats" opened to $13.3 million to place No. 3 for the weekend.Coming in No. 4 was Universal's Milla Jovovich sci-fi thriller "The Fourth Kind," which opened to $12.5 million. Paramount's "Paranormal Activity" came in at No. 5 with $8.6 million for a cumulative of $97.4 million. »

- Adnan Tezer

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“Carol” Has A Dickens Of A Time

8 hours ago | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Moviegoers were about as tight-fisted at the box office over the weekend as Ebenezer Scrooge was at the grindstone in his day. The top film, Disney's A Christmas Carol, which stars Jim Carrey as Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, opened with an estimated $31 million, far below analysts' expectations of about $40-45 million -- and less than half what Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa earned when it opened with $63.1 million during the comparable weekend a year ago. But while most critics called the performance of the movie disappointing, particularly for a movie that was said to have cost close to $200 million, others pointed out that it took in more than Robert Zemeckis's previous motion-capture animation films, including The Polar Express, which opened with $23 million, and Beowulf, with $28 million. Besides, Disney apparently intends to milk it for another seven weekends before Christmas. "You know you're in for a marathon rather than a dash," Chuck Viane, Disney's president of domestic theatrical distribution, told Reuters. Slipping to second place was the Michael Jackson concert documentary This Is It, which dropped a moderate 39.7 percent to $14 million. (It continued to perform strongly overseas, however.) The comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats opened in third place with a better-than-expected $13.3 million. Another new film, The Fourth Kind, followed with $12.5 million. Rounding out the top five was Paranormal Activity, which fell 48 percent to $8.6 million. Nevertheless, the $15,000 film's total gross has now risen to $97 million, putting it on track to pass the $100-million mark before next weekend. Meanwhile the critically praised Precious opened in just 18 theaters with $1.8 million -- or a staggering $100,000 per theater. »

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'A Christmas Carol': NYC subway graffiti accurately sums up my feelings on nation's No. 1 film

9 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

How many reimaginings/remakes/reboots of A Christmas Carol is too many? For me, it's all been a matter of diminishing returns since Vanessa (L. Yeah) Williams cut an extra-glamorous yuletide picture in VH1's 2000 classic A Diva's Christmas Carol, but maybe that makes me crazy. (Possibly.) Seriously, though, after learning that Disney's new Jim Carrey-led Carol reigned over the weekend box office (to the tune of $31 million), I was starting to think I was the only person in America who thought the film's trailer made it the most unappealing cineplex prospect since that other Robert Zemeckis holiday movie »

- Michael Slezak

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

11 hours ago | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

11 hours ago | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

11 hours ago | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

11 hours ago | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Box Office: An Indie Racks Up Some ‘Precious’ Per Screen Totals

11 hours ago | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Sure, technically Jim Carrey and company won the weekend with the 3D animated adventure A Christmas Carol, but the real reason everyone’s talking about this weekend’s box office is because of another movie’s totals.

Remember a few weeks ago when I was talking about how unbelievable it was that Paranormal Activity had a per screen average of $44,000? Well a little indie called Precious came in and mopped the floor with those totals. Precious played in just 18 theaters and grossed $1.8 million. Folks, that’s a $100,000 per screen average. To put that in perspective, if A Christmas Carol had the same per screen average, it would have grossed over $360 million (instead of $31 million).

This indicates a high degree of interest in the movie, and this weekend’s total will only add to that. Additionally, some people have been throwing around the “O” word, as in Oscar.  It received a standing ovation at Cannes, »

- Shannon Hood

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

11 hours ago | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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A Christmas Carol Kicks Off Holiday Movie Season With $31 Million

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A Christmas Carol debuted atop the weekend box office, taking in $31 million and kicking off the holiday movie season.

Disney's animated version of the Charles Dickens classic, which features Jim Carrey as miserly Ebenezer Scrooge as well as the three ghosts who haunt him, knocked Michael Jackson's This Is It to second place, which took in $14 million. So far, the late King of Pop's concert film has taken in $57.9 domestically and $186.5 million worldwide.

Video: Go on the set of A Christmas Carol

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire — which has won awards at the Sundance and Toronto film festivals — had a strong start, taking in ...

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- Gina DiNunno

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'A Christmas Carol' Defeats 'This Is It' At Box Office

13 hours ago | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

Michael Jackson documentary moonwalks into second place behind big-budget retelling of classic Christmas story.

By Josh Wigler

Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Jim Carrey) in "A Christmas Carol"

Photo: Disney

Box-Office Top Five

#1 "A Christmas Carol" ($31 million)

#2 "Michael Jackson's This Is It" ($14 million)

#3 "The Men Who Stare at Goats" ($13.3 million)

#4 "The Fourth Kind" ($12.5 million)

#5 "Paranormal Activity" ($8.6 million)

Despite the first-place finish of Robert Zemeckis's 3-D representation of "A Christmas Carol," yuletide cheer seemed halfhearted at the weekend box office. Given Jim Carrey's star power, the movie's $200 million budget and the potential family-crowd draw, the $31 million debut from "A Christmas Carol" is a disappointing result for the Disney version of the Charles Dickens classic.

Second place went to "Michael Jackson's This Is It," which earned less than half as much as the first-place finisher. Winding down Friday evening in fourth place, "This Is It" wound up in the #2 slot thanks »

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Monday Morning Box Office Report: A Christmas Carol Conquers, The Box Bombs

14 hours ago | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Robert Zemeckis and Jim Carrey managed to climb their way to the top of the box office this past weekend with their retelling of A Christmas Carol. Audiences responded despite the seemingly early holiday release, and although the opening weekend didn't quite live up to expectations, it will probably continue to steadily make money over the next two months. Michael Jackson's This Is It dropped to #2 but still made $14 million, while The Men Who Stare At Goats and The Fourth Kind weren't far behind. Paranormal Activity fell to #5. Disappointing news for Richard Kelly as his latest film The Box had a pretty lacklustre weekend, earning just $7.8 million, perhaps due to the fact that it was a difficult movie to market. The biggest story, however, appears to be the indie film Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, which opened at #12 but it made $1.8 million on just 18 screens -- »

- Sean

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Weekend Box Office: 'Christmas Carol' and 'Precious' Bow Big

14 hours ago | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I was considering a title pun on Richard Kelly getting Box-ed out -- which works on multiple levels!! -- but I couldn't pull the trigger. That, though, is my main concern this weekend, to be honest: I am heartbroken (though not surprised) that Kelly's wonderful, hugely ambitious sci-fi flick couldn't get a foothold at the box office. People at my Thursday night screening thought they had seen one of the worst movies ever, which I guess is what happens when you're led to expect harmless PG-13 horror and get something so radically different. I also suspect that Donnie Darko would have been similarly received had it opened on 2,600 screens instead of building its cult cred in mini-release and on DVD.

Anyway, The Boxearned $7.9 million -- not a total disaster for a $25 million movie, but not exactly a resume-builder for Kelly to the extent he has commercial ambitions. It was roundly »

- Eugene Novikov

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Robin Wright talks raising kids outside of Hollywood and divorcing Sean Penn

14 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Robin Wright seems exhilarated about starting over, both personally and professionally. In recent months, the actress has overhauled just about every aspect of her life, from throwing herself into her work again (she stars in Disney's A Christmas Carol and the upcoming The Private Lives of Pippa Lee) to divorcing Sean Penn after a tumultuous 20-year marriage. She also recently moved back to Southern California (with kids Dylan, 18, and Hopper, 16) after spending 12 years in the San Francisco area. "I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society," Wright says, referring to Hollywood. "If you have celebrity parents, »

- EW staff

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Weekend Recap - 'Precious,' J.J. Abrams, 'Battleship'

16 hours ago | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

Even though A Christmas Carol didn't earn as much money as it was expected to, there was still big box office news over the weekend. The probable Best Picture nominee Precious only played in 18 theaters and still nearly made two million bucks. That's a record.

We're also getting to the end of the decade, which means a lot of lists you're sure to disagree with. And we found one of those on Saturday. Also, Natalie Portman talks about her upcoming Black Swan lesbian scene, and Peter Berg's Battleship might be attacked be...aliens. Sigh/head shake.

Portman calls sex scene "extreme"

Telegraph's Top 100 of the decade

J.J. Abrams close to producing Micronauts movie

Danny Boyle's next movie to feature dialogue-free hour

What in the hell is Peter Berg doing to Battleship?

Taylor Swift's SNL Twilight spoof

Box Office: A record-breaking weekend for Precious »

- Colin Boyd

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'This Is It' retains Aus box office lead

16 hours ago | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Michael Jackson's This Is It has topped the Australian box office for the second week running. The music documentary narrowly holds off new entry The Time Traveler's Wife to retain the chart crown, while Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol opens in a disappointing third. Couples Retreat and Mao's Last Dancer round out the top five. Elsewhere, Richard Kelly's thriller The Box maintains its position at number eight, while Meryl Streep comedy Julie & Julia falls three (more) »

- By Simon Reynolds

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Christmas Came Early for Disney

17 hours ago | Hollyscoop.com | See recent HollyScoop news »

Christmas came early for Disney. Their latest flick 'Disney's A Christmas Carol' starring Jim Carrey dominated the box office this past weekend bringing in $31 million dollars opening weekend. Fans are still buying up tickets to 'Michael Jackson's This Is It' movie, because the flick came in second with $14 million. George Clooney's 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' rounded out the top three bringing in $13.3 million. Here are the top ten movies from the November 6-8 weekend: 1. Disney's A Christmas Carol: $31 million 2. Michael Jackson's This Is It: $14... »

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